The Draft, 1940-1973University Press of Kansas, 1993 - 376 sider "Individual liberty is ingrained in American culture. Yet, in contrast to this cherished ideal, American men were inducted into military service under a system that flourished for more than twenty years before its rationalization was seriously questioned by more than a small minority of citizens." "Analyzing this paradox, George Flynn provides the first comprehensive look at an institution that managed to sustain political and public favor through two wars before dying out under a barrage of protests during a third. Placing the American draft within a historical context, he shows how social and political considerations determined the character of conscription in the United States." "The draft developed as it did, he argues, not mainly because of military needs or strategy, but because of political decisions initiated by civilians with nonmilitary agendas. Explaining why the draft remained relatively immune to political criticism prior to the Vietnam conflict, Flynn chronicles the draft's military and strategic successes and failures in America's mid-century wars. He shows how major institutions and lobbies representing science, education, and various professions and religions influenced it and how, ultimately and ironically, the selective character of the draft eventually made the system inequitable and helped cause its downfall."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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Illustrations | 12 |
Drawing capsules for draft lottery | 23 |
A family of conscientious objectors | 46 |
Draftees undergoing physicals | 55 |
Roosevelt registers with the draft | 63 |
Truman signs the bill for a | 104 |
Protesting universal military | 125 |
Students tested for deferment | 143 |
Evading the draft | 213 |
Nixon and the Draft | 224 |
Protest during Nixons | 237 |
General Hershey with his fourth | 244 |
Curtis Tarr stirs the last capsules | 255 |
The AVF and the Future | 259 |
Now machines do it all | 280 |
Notes | 283 |
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